1. 1 Shel Silverstein, Harper Collins, 1974 … the dirt roads of science Rick Dove December 2009 2020 Vision

2. 2 File0.30 www.joystiq.com/2009/08/29/guitar-hero-5-ad-features-hugh-hefner-plethora-of-playboy-bunni/

3. 3 Marge Simpson poses for Playboy November Cover http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091009/ap_on_en_ot/us_playboy_marge_simpson Giving the star of "The Simpsons" the star treatment, complete with a data sheet, an interview and a 2-page centerfold. "We knew that this would really appeal to the 20-something crowd,”

4. 4 Sir Richard Branson standing before Mothership VMS Eve after his maiden flight

5. 5 Imperial Airways airliner 'Hannibal' flying over Croydon Airport, early 1930s Opened 29 March 1920. Regular scheduled flights were introduced, carrying passengers, mail and freight to Paris, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Entrance to Croydon Aerodrome, 1920 90 Years Later … Las Cruces, New Mexico Spaceport Completion targeted end of 2010 Virgin Galactic's commercial space operation Paying passengers going up in 2011 $40 million in deposits collected by June 2009 Five spaceships ordered to meet the demand www.spaceportamerica.com/

6. 6 In France, On November 12, 1906, Alberto Santos-Dumont flew 220 meters (726 feet). www.first-to-fly.com/History/Wright%20Story/prizepatrol.htm The launch, as seen from the International Space Station 100 Years One Life Time

7. 7 Interorbital Systems Personal Satellite Kit http://spacefellowship.com/2009/08/01/interorbital-syatems-tubesat-personal-satellite-kit/ http://mstl.atl.calpoly.edu/~jfoley/Summer2009/Sun_1320_TubeSat%20Utah%20August%202009%201.pdf $8,000 kit includes launch into low-earth-orbit on an IOS NEPTUNE 30 after a few weeks, re-entry & burn-up Orbit-friendly launches begin in Q4 2010

8. 8 IOS Neptune 30 2-Person Crewed Capsule Launch from Spaceport Tonga in 2011 by Interorbital Systems (IOS) Test Pilots http://spaceports.blogspot.com/2009/09/interorbital-systems-has-crewed-capsule.html http://www.interorbital.com/ $800,000 per person when commercial service begins in 2012

9. 9 Colonists and pilgrims seldom set off for the New World with the expectation of a return trip. Much of the cost of a voyage to Mars will be spent on carrying fuel for the return. A significant fraction of scientists older than 65 who were asked… are willing to live out their remaining years on the red planet or elsewhere. A One-Way Ticket to Mars Lawrence Krauss, New York Times, Sep 1, 2009, www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/opinion/01krauss.html Sep 2009

10. 10 This engine can take us to Mars in 39 days www.canada.com/technology/rocket+engine+could+make+trips+Mars+realistic/2119300/story.html Mars and Earth are close together every two years. Previously, a crew would have to travel one way, wait a year, then fly back - raising huge problems for food, air and water storage. Ion drive makes a round trip possible in 90 days, during a single close period. 10Oct09: “And this just happened in the last couple of weeks.” VASIMR engine, made by Ad Astra Rocket Co. of Houston. Oct 2009

11. 11 How they Used to Blow Smoke Up There Device and practice were real Phrase origination not confirmed

12. 12 'Spider pill' used for colon scans 11 October 2009 The 'spider pill' is fitted with a camera and is designed to be swallowed. Once within the colon or intestine, the legs are opened using a wireless radio connection from the outside. Once the scan has been completed, the spider pill exits the body as waste. The device has so far been tested on pigs. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6300636/Spider-pill-offers-new-way-to-scan-for-diseases-including-colon-cancer.html http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1109211/'Spider-pill'-used-for-scans# http://player.sbs.com.au/naca#/naca/wna/Latest/playlist/Doctors-trial-new-spider-pill-/ File 1:36

13. 13 The ConvAirCar buzzed San Diego for more than an hour during a trial flight in November 1947. The auto-plane prototype had a detachable fiberglass car body that people could drive like any other car. Like other vehicles, the flying kind could also run out of gas, which is what the ConvAirCar did on its third test flight. The pilot survived the crash. Plans for manufacturing the auto-plane did not. National Geographic, 12/03 We’ve all been waiting for the flying car...and waiting…and waiting…and…

14. 14 Terrafugia conducted its first flight on March 5 [2009]. “Terrafugia has set the stage for personal aviation,” Dietrich said. “It’s what aviation enthusiasts have been striving for since 1918″—the date of the first experiments with roadable aircraft. The two-seat, four-wheeled aircraft can fly up to 450 miles at 115 miles per hour and has folding wings that ratchet out of the way when it’s on the ground. Narrow enough to tool down the highway—where it can go up to 65 mph and get 30 miles to the gallon. Terrafugia Achieves Maiden Flight Wade Roush 3/18/09, www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/03/18/terrafugia-achieves-maiden-flight-live-blogging-from-the-boston-museum-of-science/

15. 15 Flying Car Flies From London To Africa Slashdot 25Feb09: “It may not be exactly what people have envisioned or tried over the years, but the BBC reports that a flying car has flown from London across into Africa.” www.parajet.com/index.php?id=138 prototype that flew to Africa projected commercial version

16. 16 Scientists Levitate Small Animals LiveScience, 29 November 2006 www.livescience.com/technology/061129_acoustic_levitation.html Live ant levitated by sound pressure They float ants, beetles, spiders, ladybugs, bees, tadpoles and fish in midair The ant and ladybug appeared fine after 30 minutes, the fish did not fare as well out of water

17. 17 Mice Levitated in Lab LiveScience, 9 September 2009, http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090909/sc_livescience/micelevitatedinlab A superconducting magnet that generates a field powerful enough to levitate the water inside living animals. The mice quickly acclimate to levitation. After three hours they acted normally, including eating and drinking. A three-week-old mouse weighing about 10 grams levitated by magnetic fields, with a cage (a) and without (b).

18. 18 Sony tabletop 360-degree 3-D display 22Oct09: http://www.examiner.com/x-16352-Japan-Headlines-Examiner~y2009m10d22-Sonys-tabletop-360-degree-3d-display-product-video Can be seen from all directions by multiple people no glasses needed Suggested uses: 3D photo frame 3D videophone 3D virtual pet 3D medical display 3D map File-1

19. 19 A picture where everything, regardless of distance from the camera is in focus And with Sony jumping on board we expect to see 3D televisions on shelves by next year's holiday season. Panasonic Full HD 3D 11 September 2009, www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/panasonic-full-hd-3d- experience-eyes-on/

20. 20 World’s first mainstream 3D laptop, the Acer Aspire 5738PG, launched alongside Windows 7 on October 22. Polarized glasses required.

21. 21 direct retinal imaging specs available 2010 Eyeball projector lets you view pictures in complete privacy Images are transparent, have an 800 x 600 resolution, and appear as a 10cm² object at a distance of 1m. Brother has plans to commercialise the glasses next year, but it hasn't said how much it expects the specs to cost. NEC, also aiming at 2010, incorporate a microphone and provides real-time language translation that display subtitles as you talk with someone. 22Oct09: www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/10/22/brother_rid_specs/www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/10/22/brother_rid_specs/ 26Oct09: www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/brother-nec-look-to-invade-your-retinas-next-year/www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/brother-nec-look-to-invade-your-retinas-next-year/ www.fareastgizmos.com/other_stuff/nec_develops_worlds_first_retinadisplay_translation_eyeglasses.php Brother NEC

22. 22 The circuits in the lens are just a few nanometers thick, and the light-emitting diodes are one-third of a millimeter across. As the team continues to work on the basic technology, it hopes to add wireless communication capabilities and to provide power to the system using both radio- frequency techniques and solar cells placed on the lens. University of Washington www.news.com/2300-11393_3-6227089-3.html?tag=ne.gall.pg LEDs in your contact lenses? http://hplusmagazine.com/articles/toys-tools/micro-machines-and-opto-electronics-contact-lense “We already see a future in which the humble contact lens becomes a real platform, like the iPhone is today.”

23. 23 www.core77.com/challenge/humanpower/

24. 24 13 Oct 2009, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/6309898/Airport-scanner-shows-passengers-naked.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/6309898/Airport-scanner-shows-passengers-naked.html www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-news/airport-trials-naked-passenger- scanner-20091014-gvxo.html The full body scanner, which is being trialed at ABQ, show up any breast enlargements, false limbs, piercings, and a clear outline of passengers' private parts.

25. 25 art by iGo But power is an issue in technology and in just plain life

26. 26 16Sep2008, www.katu.com/news/local/28432984.html His 3D cells would provide 500 times more absorption than available solar cells and nine times more than cutting-edge 3D solar cells “William’s work was evaluated by university professors and environmental scientists. Generally, the projects need to be at the graduate level.” “He is our youngest fellow in science that we’ve ever had. You would never know he’s 12 looking at the quality of his work.” www.beavertonvalleytimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=122109656865633500

27. 27 A theoretical design for a table-top black hole to trap light was proposed in a paper published earlier this year by Narimanov and Kildishev of Purdue University. Tie Jun Cui and Qiang Cheng at a University in China have turned their theory into practice. Electromagnetic waves are guided in the shell and then absorbed by the core. … leads to a new way of harvesting solar energy. Narimanov is impressed: "I am surprised that they have done it so quickly.” see: Cheng, Qiang and Tie Jun Cui. 2009. Optical black hole: Broadband omnidirectional light absorber. Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 041106, 27Jul. http://link.aip.org/link/?APPLAB/95/041106/1 First black hole for light created on Earth Anil Ananthaswamy,14Oct09, http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17980

28. 28 Energy of the Future: Igniting a Star With Laser Light Dave Bullock, 04May09, www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2009/05/gallery_nif Using 192 separate lasers and a 400-foot-long series of amplifiers and filters, Lawrence Livermore's National Ignition Facility hopes to create a self-sustaining fusion reaction like the ones in the sun. "We are well on our way to achieving what we set out to do — controlled nuclear fusion and energy gain for the first time ever.”

29. 29 Models of Eel Cells Suggest Electrifying Possibilities Artificial cells could be built that not only replicate the electrical behavior of electric eel cells but in fact improve on them. Artificial versions of the eel’s electricity generating cells could be developed as a power source for medical implants and other tiny devices, they say. Their calculations show that substantial improvements are possible. One design for an artificial cell generates more than 40 percent more energy in a single pulse than a natural electrocyte. Another would produce peak power outputs over 28 percent higher. www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-10/nios-moe100208.php

30. 30 We've Seen the Future, and It's Unmanned 14Oct09, www.esquire.com/features/unmanned-aircraft-1109 Every so often in history, something profound happens that changes warfare forever. Next year, for the first time ever, the Pentagon will buy more unmanned aircraft than manned.

31. 31 Fed up with losing bandmates to sex, drugs, and day jobs, Jay Vance decided to replace them with robots. Early came DRMBOT 0110 — a basic drum kit rigged with four sticks, bicycle brake cables, and a homemade foot pedal. Captured! By Robots was born. Computer-driven pneumatics make sticks smack skins and creepy robot fingers form killer chords. GTRBOT666, a foulmouthed, 7-foot-tall monstrosity, plays a mean double-necked guitar. www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/15-08/pl_music

32. 32 http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/4149 Video: platform for indoor autonomous flight. File3 http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/3808 Video: seeker mission. Autonomously searching/navigating an indoor gps-denied environment to find a shining LED, …somewhere. File2:46 Unmanned vehicles flying without GPS through unmapped indoor environments Vehicle finds open window in wall and flies through Indoor Autonomous Helicopter Ruijie He, Sam Prentice and Nicholas Roy. 2008. Planning in information space for a quadrotor helicopter in a GPS-denied environment. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2008). Los Angeles. (Winner, Best paper award). http://mapleleaf.csail.mit.edu/~nickroy/papers/icra08-rh.pdf Kollar, Thomas and Nicholas Roy. 2008. Efficient optimization of information-theoretic exploration in SLAM. Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Chicago, pp. 1369-1375. http://mapleleaf.csail.mit.edu/~nickroy/papers/aaai08-tk.pdfhttp://mapleleaf.csail.mit.edu/~nickroy/papers/aaai08-tk.pdf

33. 33 We Don’t Need You Anymore August 3, 2009 by Travis Deyle, http://www.hizook.com/blog/2009/08/03/high-speed-robot-hand- demonstrates-dexterity-and-skillful-manipulation Dribbles a ping-pong ball, spins a pen, throws a ball, ties knots, tweezers a rice grain, tosses/catches a cellphone! File 3

34. 34 Robot warriors no longer sci-fi 5/16/2009, Gavin Knight, www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1182910/March-terminators-Robot-warrior The MK5 anti-aircraft system: two 35mm cannons and an auto-loading magazine of 500 high- explosive rounds, controlled by a computer. As the demo begins, the South African troops sense that something is wrong. “There was nowhere to hide, the gun fired wildly, spraying explosive shells at a rate of 550 a minute, swinging 360 degrees like a high-pressure hose.” When the robot had emptied its magazine, nine soldiers lay dead, another 14 seriously injured. A 'software glitch'. We went into Iraq in 2003 with zero robots. Now we have 12,000 on the ground.

35. 35 DIY Life-Forming http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081225/ap_on_sc/do_it_yourself_dna Meredith L. Patterson, a computer programmer by day, conducts an experiment in the dining room of her San Francisco apartment. She ordered jellyfish DNA for a green fluorescent protein from a biological supply company for less than $100. And she built her own lab equipment, including a gel electrophoresis chamber, or DNA analyzer, which she constructed for less than $25.

36. 36 Bio-Printer Two of these are used to print the bio-ink particles, a third unit is used to print the bio-paper/substrate (e.g. collagen gel). http://organprint.missouri.edu/www/facilities.php 1212

37. 37 A wet slab of protein that feels like a paper-thin slice of bologna. It's supple, slimy, but unlike meat, if you were to slice it down the center today, tomorrow the wound would heal. It's factory-grown living tissue. The flagship product, Apligraf, is the only living cell-based product that is FDA-approved. Mass produced living tissue http://gizmodo.com/5401477/meat-band+aids-and-mass-production-of-living-tissue

38. 38 In-Vitro Meat -- aka tank steak, beaker bacon, Frankenburger – will appear in 3-10 years as a cheaper, healthier, "greener" protein easily manufactured in a metropolis. In-Vitro Meat will be fashioned from any animal, even rare beasts like snow leopard, or Komodo Dragon... even the DNA of extinct beasts -- "DinoBurgers“ at every six- year-old birthday party. Cannibalism is open game, maybe "Stewed Idi Amin“ for some. 17Nov2009 http://hplusmagazine.com/article s/bio/eight-ways-vitro-meat-will- change-our-lives

39. 39 Profound need from the Muscular Dystrophy community 08Dec09: http://singularityhub.com/2009/12/08/super-strength-substance-myostatin-one-step-closer-to-human-trials/ Scientists got follistatin (a myostatin blocker) to promote phenomenal muscle growth in macaque monkeys …with few or no discernible negative side effects. We may be able to live with the strength of our youth into our 80s. FDA test are next. Then more testing before human clinical trials begin The belgian blue, bred towards myostatin blocking

41. 41 http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.12/translate.html

42. 42 www.livescience.com/health/090329-game-vision.html -- www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/Daphne/GreenandBavelier.pdf People who play action video games see contrast up to 58 percent better. www.livescience.com/technology/081003-school-games.html Playing World of Warcraft, eighth graders have gone from barely stringing together two sentences to writing lengthy posts in their group's Web forum, where they discuss detailed strategies for gearing up their virtual characters and figuring out tough quests. “Give us 5 days” www.pnas.org/content/102/41/14931 Video Games Build Neuronal Intelligence Circuits

43. 43 Child-like intelligence created in Second Life http://itnews.com.au/News/72057,childlike-intelligence-created-in-second-life.aspx Eddie has his own set of beliefs, and the ability to reason about his beliefs to draw conclusions in a manner that matches 4-year old children. This includes a partially developed “theory of mind”, which allows him to understand, predict and manipulate the behavior of human players.

44. 44 Drug-free memory erasure 02Apr09, Ewen Callaway: www.newscientist.com/article/dn16893-drugfree-memory-erasure-could-lead-to-spotless-minds.htmlwww.newscientist.com/article/dn16893-drugfree-memory-erasure-could-lead-to-spotless-minds.html The new procedure relies on a quirky property of memories called reconsolidation. The process of jogging a memory – with an emotional or sensory jolt, for instance – seems to make it malleable for a few hours. Marie MonfilsMarie Monfils, a neuroscientist at the University of Texas in Austin, tweaked a therapy sometimes used to treat PTSD, called extinction. Her team first taught rats to associate a musical tone with a slight electric shock. Playing the tone with no shock generally causes rats to freeze in fear. When her team played the tone over and over again, 19 times, the rats displayed less and less fear. This is standard extinction therapy. However, a month later their fear of the tone returned, strong as ever. To make the effect permanent, Monfils team jogged other rats' memories of shocks just once, waited an hour for memory reconsolidation to begin, and then played the tone over and over. "It's very simple and almost naïve to think it would work," Monfils says. But the fearful memories disappeared permanently. Rats that got extinction therapy after this reconsolidation window had closed relapsed as well. Monfils theorises that extinction therapy alone creates two parallel memories linked to the tone or blue square, one fearful, one not. Waiting for reconsolidation to kick in overwrites the original memory instead of making a parallel memory, she says. Using a nearly identical procedure, Daniela Schiller and Elizabeth Phelps, neuroscientists at New York University, tested whether they could block human volunteers from recalling a fearful memory. They presented their findings last month at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society's annual meeting in San Francisco. As with the rats, repeated exposure to the blue dot during the reconsolidation window seemed to block the fearful memory from returning.Daniela Schillermeeting What's more, if volunteers learned to associate both blue and yellow squares with a shock, Schiller's team could selectively block fearful reactions to the blue dot, while maintaining the fear of yellow, she says.

45. 45 Google Talk video-52minvideo-52min Get This Book www.youtube.com/profile_video_blog?sid=0322DF17570AA647&id=09C3484AFA769EA5 Brain Rules author John Madina, Ph.D.

46. 46 Brain Rule #1: Exercise boosts brain power www.brainrules.net/exercise Researchers studied two elderly populations that had led different lifestyles, one sedentary and one active. Cognitive scores were profoundly influenced. If the sedentary populations become active, will their cognitive scores go up? Yes, it turns out, if the exercise is aerobic. Exercise acts directly on the molecular machinery of the brain itself. It increases neurons’ creation, survival, and resistance to damage and stress. File-1.5

47. 47 30 minutes twice a week is all that’s needed

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49. 49 Brain Rule #10: Vision trumps all other senses www.brainrules.net/vision

50. 50 File-0:20File-0:30

51. 51 The people surveyed were asked to respond "true" or "false" to the statement "Human beings, as we know them, developed from earlier species of animals."

52. 52 Darwin's principle of evolution by natural selection need not apply just to biology. Given some kind of copying machinery that makes lots of slightly different copies of the same information, and given that only a few of those copies survive to be copied again, an evolutionary process must occur and design will appear out of destruction. Memes are a new kind of information - behaviours rather than DNA - copied by a new kind of machinery - brains rather than chemicals inside cells. This is a new evolutionary process because all of the three critical stages - copying, varying and selection - are done by those brains.DNA So does the same apply to new technology? Evolution’s Third Replicator: Genes, memes, and now what? Susan Blackmore, NewScientist, 31 July 2009 www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327191.500-evolutions-third-replicator-genes-memes-and-now-what.html

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54. 54 In just over a day, a new computer program did what took physicists centuries to complete: extrapolating the laws of motion from a pendulum's swings. The program deduced the natural laws without a shred of knowledge about physics or geometry. Condensing rules from raw data has long been considered the province of human intuition, not machine intelligence. 02Apr09, Wired http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/newtonai.html

55. 55 art: Citrix

56. 56 Direct Neural Read/Write Nov09, www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/mf_optigenetics/ The mice walked… severely parkinsonian animals were restored to normal behavior. But imagine saying to a patient, “We’re going to genetically alter your brain by injecting it with viruses that carry genes taken from pond scum, and then we’re going to insert light sources into your skull.” Two-way traffic could lead to human-machine fusions in which the brain truly interacts with the machine. It has suddenly leapt from the realm of wild fantasy to concrete possibility.

57. 57 Bionic Vision: Cheri's Story (5/17/2005 ) http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=79475 Cheri says, “It's like Robochick!” A tiny camera sends video signals into a computer, which processes the information and then sends it through two cables that plug into each side of the skull. Electrodes inside the skull stimulates the back of the brain, which creates visual images, like the dots you see on the huge scoreboards used at sports stadiums. 17May05: www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=79475

58. 58 Professor Warwick (who incidentally has a device implanted in his left arm that enables his nervous system to be connected to a computer) and his colleague Ben Whalley from the School of Pharmacy recently created a robot that is controlled by cultured rat neurons. Surfdaddy Orca, 16Oct09, www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/robotics/using-human-%E2%80%9Cwetware%E2%80%9D-control-robots File1 Rat Brain Robot Now… Human Brain Cells Next

59. 59 Remote radio control of insect flight http://frontiersin.org/integrativeneuroscience/paper/10.3389/neuro.07/024.2009/ We demonstrated the remote control of insects in free flight via an implantable radio-equipped miniature neural stimulating system. Flight initiation, cessation and elevation control were accomplished through neural stimulus of the brain causing, suppressing, or modulating wing oscillation. Turns were triggered through direct muscular stimulus of the basalar muscles.

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61. 61 Black Swans are extreme events (9/11, financial collapse, etc.). We think Black Swans are rare, but they occur more frequently than typical analysis indicates. With increased global connectivity, we’ve introduced dynamic instability into global systems. As you scale connectivity of a network it becomes more fit – allowing each agent in the system to better meet their goals (health, wealth, etc.), also able to shrug off more small shocks. But … it is more prone to catastrophic failure events, and each increase in connectivity accelerates these chances. Societal decision making: Short/medium term improvements assume that our situation can only get better and better. THE INCREASING FREQUENCY OF BLACK SWANS 11Apr2009, John Robb, www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d83451576d69e201157013e133970b

62. 62 Somali sea gangs lure investors 01Dec09 Reuters, www.reuters.com/article/wtUSInvestingNews/idUSTRE5B01Z92009120 1?sp=true “I am waiting for my share after I contributed a rocket-propelled grenade for the operation. I have made $75,000 in only 38 days since I joined the 'company‘,” Said Investor Sahra Ibrahim, a 22-year-old divorcee who got the weapon from her ex- husband in alimony. “The shares are open to all … we've made piracy a community activity” “It is the main profitable economic activity in our area and we depend on their output. The district gets a percentage of every ransom paid, and that goes on public infrastructure, including our hospital and our public schools.” “Let the navies continue their search for us … our motto for the job is 'do or die'.” Pirates-R-Us 01Dec09 Reuters, www.reuters.com/article/wtUSInvestingNews/idUSTRE5B01Z920091201?sp=true

63. 63 12Nov09: Juarez calls for U.N. to help quell violence www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2009/11/12/2009-11-12_mexican_city_of_ciudad_juarez_calls_for_un_to_help_quell_violence.html U.S. has sent more than 5,000 soldiers, but the killings and extortion have not abated. Juarez, population 1.5 million, averages seven homicides a day, 1,986 this year through mid-October.

64. 64 Mexican Pot Gangs Infiltrate Indian Reservations in U.S. 05Nov09, Wall Street Journal, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125736987377028727.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond Illicit pot farms, the vast majority run by gangs with ties to Mexico, are growing fast across the country. …discovered in 61 national forests across 16 states. Part of the trend is due to unforeseen consequences of stepped-up security on the U.S. border to slow the tide of illegal immigration from Mexico. The tighter border is also prompting an unwillingness by illegal farm workers to cross back and forth -- creating a year-round labor force in rural areas. Tribal police in Washington and Oregon say they expect Mexican gangs to keep reappearing every year during the summer harvest season. Says Chief Smith: "If we ever catch them, we'll run them off the reservation."

65. 65 Kits for DIY System Hacking www.plans-kits.com/kits.html Includes a 50,000W military magnetron with complete operational information, EMP rifle plans, and 3 (12KV @ 1A) rectifiers. Can be made the size of a super soaker water gun with a range of over 300 yards. Could stall cars, cause semiconductors to burn out, microprocessors to malfunction, and erase computer data on hard drives. The kit will turn traffic lights green in most U.S. and foreign cities. Emergency vehicles use this on traffic lights from over 600 yards out. Most major cities requiring gated communities to install openers for emergency vehicles. Kit-1 includes all required components. Kit-2 includes car cigarette plug adapter.

66. 66 Inducing a Pacemaker Heart Attack www.technologyreview.com/TR35/Profile.aspx?TRID=760&Cand=&pg=1 Fu's software radio was capable of completely reprogramming a patient's ICD in his or her body. … able to instruct the device not to respond to a cardiac event… …and tell the defibrillator to initiate its test sequence--delivering 700 volts to the heart … …whenever they wanted.

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68. 68 The future’s already arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet. … William Gibson

69. 69 infinity 2020 vision

70. 70 Systems Engineer #1 Best American Job Nov 2009 Money Magazine http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/2009/snapshots/1.html “big think” managers on large, complex projects. They figure out the technical specifications and coordinate the efforts of lower-level engineers working on specific project aspects. “The transit system I work on really makes a tangible difference to people,” says Anne O'Neil, chief systems engineer for the New York City Transit Authority.